July 23, 2015

Welcome to the Charleston by REVIVE Blog Tour! Charleston is the first REVIVE collection that is re-colored from vintage prints from different eras, movements, or artistic styles. This collection has been curated to highlight the Art Deco period, but colored and styled for use in modern-day projects. You can see all 28 prints in the Charleston collection here. The prints are mostly metallic, and are very elegant.

I designed a quilt block for the blog tour, and have provided a tutorial below. Before you get busy sewing, though, you should hop over to Timeless Treasures' blog, Sew Timeless, to enter the giveaway for a complete 28-piece fat quarter bundle of Charleston. You just might be one of the three winners chosen on July 27th. And don't forget to leave a comment here to win one yard of your favorite print from the collection! I'll close the comments Monday at 10:00 p.m CDT, and announce the winner here on Tuesday.

And one more thing -- Do you EQ? You can download the entire Charleston collection over at The EQ Blog. And there's still time to design a block for the Timeless Treasures Block Challenge! You'll want to hurry, though. All blocks need to be submitted electronically by Monday, July 27.

And here's a little tutorial for you. The block I designed for the Charleston by REVIVE blog tour is 12" square. "Bonus" triangles from one block are switched and used to complete a different block so that you end up with two different main fabrics in each block. The cutting list below is for two blocks.

For the first two blocks, I used:Glitz Revive CM4205 RedArt Deco Revive CM4208 CreamGlamour Revive CM4212 NavyIn the instructions, I'll refer to the fabrics as red, cream, and navy.

7. Place a square ruler along the upper and right edge of the half-square triangle unit as shown, with the diagonal line of the ruler following the seam line. Trim the top and right edges.

8. Rotate the half-square triangle unit so that the trimmed edges are aligned with the 2 1/2" horizontal and vertical markings on the ruler as shown. Trim the extra fabric from the top and right edges. Make 4 matching half-square triangle units.

WOW...that is one gorgeous quilt!!!!!! I love the look of that block!I'll have to go over and check out the giveaway because we all know I don't have enough fabric :)

Hope you're staying cool down there in Florida....we hit 98 on Sunday which sent me right out to thepool for the afternoon, something that's unheard of LOL Today we got some lower humidity so i'mmuch happier!